{"id":5885,"date":"2010-12-21T08:05:51","date_gmt":"2010-12-21T14:05:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bekahcubed.menterz.com\/blog\/?p=5885"},"modified":"2010-12-21T08:05:51","modified_gmt":"2010-12-21T14:05:51","slug":"preparing-for-christmas","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/bekahcubed.menterz.com\/blog\/2010\/20101221-5885.htm","title":{"rendered":"Preparing for Christmas"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Come the second week of December and my boxes still aren&#8217;t unpacked, my self still not settled into the House of Dreams.  <\/p>\n<p>Moving while working isn&#8217;t easy.<\/p>\n<p>Maybe I&#8217;d be tempted to skip Christmas decorating this year.  After all, I&#8217;ll be going back to Lincoln to celebrate Christmas with my family anyway.<\/p>\n<p>But I couldn&#8217;t do that.  <\/p>\n<p>Christmas provides the impetus to finish my unpacking, to get the main rooms ready.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" src=\"images\/20101220-04.jpg\" height=\"300\" width=\"400\" alt=\"Christmas in the House of Dreams\" class=\"aligncenter\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Stick a tree in the corner next to the piano.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" src=\"images\/20101220-03.jpg\" height=\"300\" width=\"400\" alt=\"Christmas in the House of Dreams\" class=\"aligncenter\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Lights around the window and a mini-tree on the end table.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" src=\"images\/20101220-05.jpg\" height=\"300\" width=\"400\" alt=\"Christmas in the House of Dreams\" class=\"aligncenter\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Anna winds lights along the staircase.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" src=\"images\/20101220-06.jpg\" height=\"300\" width=\"400\" alt=\"Christmas in the House of Dreams\" class=\"aligncenter\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Christmas balls and lights among my crystal on a bookcase.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" src=\"images\/20101220-07.jpg\" height=\"300\" width=\"400\" alt=\"Christmas in the House of Dreams\" class=\"aligncenter\" \/><\/p>\n<p>An advent wreath on the table.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" src=\"images\/20101220-08.jpg\" height=\"400\" width=\"300\" alt=\"Christmas in the House of Dreams\" class=\"aligncenter\" \/><\/p>\n<p>The House of Dreams is ready for Christmas (except for those empty boxes and miscellany still hanging out in the dining room.)<\/p>\n<p>I finished the last &#8220;emptying&#8221; of the living room and dining room last night.  <\/p>\n<p>Two more rooms moved in&#8211;and two ready for Christmas.  Yippee!<\/p>\n<p><i>And now, to show off my Christmas tree and its homemade skirt in a bit more detail&#8230;<\/i><br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" src=\"images\/20101220-01.jpg\" height=\"400\" width=\"300\" alt=\"Christmas tree\" class=\"aligncenter\" \/><br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" src=\"images\/20101220-02.jpg\" height=\"300\" width=\"400\" alt=\"Christmas in the House of Dreams\" class=\"aligncenter\" \/><\/p>\n<p><i>Please forgive my vanity, but I&#8217;m pretty proud of our little (big) House of Dreams.<\/i><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Come the second week of December and my boxes still aren&#8217;t unpacked, my self still not settled into the House of Dreams. Moving while working isn&#8217;t easy. Maybe I&#8217;d be tempted to skip Christmas decorating this year. After all, I&#8217;ll be going back to Lincoln to celebrate Christmas with my family anyway. But I couldn&#8217;t &#8230; <a title=\"Preparing for Christmas\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"http:\/\/bekahcubed.menterz.com\/blog\/2010\/20101221-5885.htm\">Read more <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Preparing for Christmas<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"ngg_post_thumbnail":0},"categories":[12],"tags":[249,327,564],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/bekahcubed.menterz.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5885"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/bekahcubed.menterz.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/bekahcubed.menterz.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/bekahcubed.menterz.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/bekahcubed.menterz.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5885"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/bekahcubed.menterz.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5885\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/bekahcubed.menterz.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5885"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/bekahcubed.menterz.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5885"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/bekahcubed.menterz.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5885"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}